Notes on Vancouver Island

Swine flu breaks out on Vancouver Island.

Vancouver Island Marmot

NOTES Reproduction of Aquaculture Atlantic Salmon in a Controlled Stream Channel on Vancouver Island, British Columbia

—Sightings and captures of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar that have escaped from aquaculture facilities have become common in coastal British Columbia, Canada. A lack of empirical data has prevented the forecast of what effects may result from the presence of this species in the Pacific Northwest. A first step towards this objective is to evaluate the spawning potential of escaped Atlantic salmon....

The Suquash Coalfield, Vancouver Island

This report is part of an ongoing project, begun in IYX7, drain the district. Most of the coalfield is covered by till which limits exposures to the showline, rivers and roadcuts. Climate is fairly mild and wet, and snowfall is common to update knwledge of the coal basins of Vancouver Island. Limited information exists pertaining to coelmeasures of the Squash crudfield or snh-basin (the terms c...

Integrated Drift Exploration Studies on N0rthe:rn Vancouver Island

northern Vancouver Island has examined parts or all of map sheets 92L/5, 6(W), 11(W), 12 and 1021/9 (Figure 1). The ohiectives and results of these integrated have been well summarized (Panteleyev el al., 1994) and detailed in a series of discipline spec:ific publications (e.g. Nixon et nl., 1994; Sibbick and Laurus, 1995, this volume). With rerpect to the drift exploration program, stu...